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Design competition for sticker. Winner gets a prize!

You could win a prize in this design competition. CUR’s Arts & Humanities Division is asking undergraduates to send in their own creative designs for a sticker promoting the division’s website, curartsandhumanities.org . If your sticker is the winner, you will receive a $250 gift certificate to Blick Art Supplies!

Here are some things you may wish to keep in mind when creating your sticker for this design competition. The Arts & Humanities division of CUR, or “CURAH”is committed to encouraging undergraduate scholarship and creative inquiry. As a result, we provide many opportunities for networking while also supporting visitors with our ever-growing pool of resources. We also have an active blog you can follow. Check out some of the newest research from undergraduates across the nation.

Designs should be fun and creative. We’re looking for something anyone would be happy to put on a water bottle, a laptop, or even their car window. Here are the requirements for the design competition:

  • TIFF, JPG, or PNG format
  • Larger than 700×700 pixels
  • Encourages the viewers to go to the site: curartsandhumanities.org
  • Lettering should be in Lato bold font.
  • Uses color scheme below
  • Includes the CUR logo below in the design (any size) – (note, if the logo is over a dark background, you may invert it to white)

Please send your design to editors@curartsandhumanities.org by December 15th, 2022

Approved colors for design completion
CUR logo for design competition
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$1,000 prize for undergraduate research to be awarded by HERA

HERA offers prize for undergraduate researchOpportunities for undergraduates to present alongside faculty are rare in the humanities, but the Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) is notable exception. Their annual conference welcomes “educators at all levels… including undergraduate/graduate students.” Best of all, HERA sponsors a $1,000 prize for undergraduate research. The prize goes to the best undergraduate paper at its annual conference. HERA also gives a smaller award to the student’s attending faculty mentor.

The 2019 conference is in Philadelphia, March 6-9. Its theme is “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Nobrow: Research and Aesthetic Values in the Humanities.” But HERA encourages participants to interpret their theme as widely as possible. The deadline for proposals (150-200 words) is January 25, 2019.

Last year’s prize for undergraduate research went to Leann Christopherson from San Francisco State University for her paper, “‘Everything was a Pretext to Arrest us’: Communicating Intersectionality through Transgressing Literary Borders in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.” Her faculty mentor is SFSU English Professor Sarina Cannon.

More information is available from HERA’s conference page on their website. If you are a student interested in submitting your work, you should check out CURAH’s guide to writing an abstract.

Do you have information about an undergraduate conference opportunity or a prize for undergraduate research in your area? Let us know using the comments or by direct email to the editorial team.